D3

[via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 10 December 2014 at 15:53:59 UTC, H. S. Teoh via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> I find the obsession with small integers (aka version numbers) 
> rather
> petty. We should start with some random number, like 49183029,

What about assigning a prime number to each semantic concept in 
the language, then calculate the product to get the unique 
version number?  If all languages used the same scheme then you 
could just factorize the version number to figure out what 
features a given language-version supports.

Another alternatives is just use something more descriptive for 
versioning, like obscure movie titles:

D:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0287205/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

D-Train:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3534602/?ref_=fn_al_tt_5

Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365830/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3


> Or perhaps the initial version should be Graham's number, and 
> every
> following version is obtained by calling the Ackermann function 
> on the
> previous version number. :-P That'll beat all competitors, for 
> sure.

Yes, it is well known that a product does not qualify as mature 
until the storage requirements for the version number exceeds the 
requirements for the executable. High resolution versioning is a 
tremendous benefit for anyone doing modern agile iterative 
development.